PlayStation and Other Gaming Titans Flock to Twitter Rival Threads

Moving from Elmo to Zuck doesn’t seem worth the effort to me. I did make an account on Spoutible before it launched but that guy seems just as much of a shmuck as the rest of them. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Tbh I have had zero issues with Twitter since Elon took over.

App runs fine for me.

Nothing with happen with Threads cause companies will lose far to much traffic for cutting Twitter usage.

Hopefully the tech titans decentralize their social media apps enough where they all eventually disappear.

You won't see me moving over. I don't touch anything that garbage Meta makes.

Interesting how standing up for free speech is controversial these days. I don't agree with everything Musk does, but ripping a massive platform away from digital tyranny, I'll applaud.

Before some of you get your knickers in a twist, I don't condone bullying. That includes racist remarks as well as shouting down and forcing ideologies on the masses. When something like hate speech isn't given a proper definition and commonly used words (and pronouns) can be flipped on a dime to become hate speech on some random person's whim... that's tyranny... leaving the masses in fear that they may say something wrong. It comes with real world consequences like losing your job because you disagree with someone on the internet. That's Marxism for you though.

Pretty normal, companies will go to every social media site to spread their reach.

@johncalmc We haven't gotten to that point. Zuckerberg is just a different option and frankly, is only a good option if you prefer governments (they're hand in hand with tech) telling you what you can say.

@Uncharted2007 What a profoundly hyperbolic response. It seems like a smart move to look at alternatives to Twitter regardless of political bent, simply because it doesn't work as well as it used to. The funny part is, it's gone from a public company beholden to shareholders to a company run by a not-so-random person's whims.

@Uncharted2007 Elon Musk has limited much of what can be said on twitter though lol. Sure it was a cesspool before, but don’t fall for his lies. Hell, now you can’t even view a Twitter thread unless you have a Twitter profile.

My cousin’s wife is an outspoken anti-racism advocate. She’s a white woman and now it goes almost unchecked when she gets called “n-word lover”. That’s the free speech Elon wants to protect?

As I stated previously. Twitter was bad before Elon. And the overtly left-wing suppression campaigns weren’t great. But he’s essentially quelled one voice to promote the opposing voice. That makes no sense at all!

"Did I ever tell you the definition of insanity?"

@Uncharted2007 you've ignored @EVIL-C point completely, though. Pasting over the fact your first comment could also apply to Musk.

I don't care either way, it's all just idiots shouting at each other. But at least address the part where you say new twitter allows free speech, when it clearly doesn't, it's just more in tune with your own views now

@johncalmc My thoughts exactly. Going from one terrible social media company to another terrible social media company is not really a good option.

Unfortunately, it’s only the big players like them that will have any chance of launching a successful platform.

I still don’t regret my decision to stay away from all of it. I deactivated my Facebook account a few years ago (I never fully deleted it because family and friends still use Messenger to communicate). I made a Twitter account many years ago, only to delete it a couple of weeks later, when spambots started to post ads from my account.

I would hate to be a company or person that needs to use social media to promote themselves.

@Ravix The post was deleted but thank you, I appreciate it.

Someone has to stand up and point out the ridiculous behaviors and hypocracy of Musk, and those labeling everything "Marxism" when that stems purely from an economic political theory; it's just spreading more disinformation and nonsense.

Despite all the problems of Twitter's previous management, at least it was publicly traded, now it's literally just 1 billionaires tyrannical fantasy come true. It's even less Democratic than it was, but that irony is lost on certain people in this thread.

I couldn't care less where Sony etc are. It's just really annoying that for a time you needed a Twitter account to get help.

@Impossibilium All very valid points. These days I just use Muskrat Central to follow gaming deals. My FB account is still open, but I never post anything and rarely check it after realizing that it's just a giant waste of time and I don't care about who went on vacation to wherever with their spouse, or where someone went for lunch. 🤦‍♂️

@BeerIsAwesome Back in my day we just called it "AOL".

After the recent Twitter update that limits the amount of post you can view a day the platform has become worthless to me. Hoping Elon gets bored one day and just sells it to someone more competent.

I also think switching to this new platform from Zuck would be like leaving the mouth of a Lion to instead go in the mouth of a Tiger.

@Korgon well said

Going from one narcissistic billionaire to another, lol

Nah, twitter is more fun after elon acquisition, before that twitter is just miserable and I don't even want to touch that website. Also community notes on twitter are hilarious

My prediction is people that don't like twitter will all be going to Threads, and goes back to twitter after realizing most people still on twitter.

Update: Already heard people getting banned on thread because of posting meme, yup thread is just old twitter v1 where disagree mean ban. There's no way thread will win agains twitter.

Who cares. Vast majority will stay on Twitter.
Elon is king. He has improved Twitter like nobody could have done. Haters gonna hate just as potato gonna potate.

I remember when Musk bought Twitter and everyone went to Hive, thinking it was the "real replacement for Twitter"

I made an account on there and haven't opened it since. Unless Twitter completely shuts down, it'll never go away. It's become too much of a staple on the internet, similar to Facebook and YouTube.

I hope eventually our main forms of social media can be on open source non profit platforms. Twitter, Reddit, and YouTube have cemented the fact that social media needs to be kept out of big corporates hands.

Only time I used twitter was to get alerts on PS5 stock back in January 2021 when it was a little rough finding one lol. Less than a week later I got it, and it was good 😇

Threads is an unfortunate name for me, I associate the word with a scary old film about nuclear war lol.

Like a few others have mentioned, I dropped nearly all forms of social media several years ago. Partly for my own health reasons, but mostly because of the toxicity I continued to see fester in every platform under the sun.

I don't know how everything will turn out in the coming years, whether social media will continue to ingrain itself in society or be eventually cast off like a terrible fad at the dawn of the age of information. But I'm find keeping up with news through sites such as this, with extremely limited interaction between the peanut gallery and the reporter.

And honestly, my free time has never been more abundant since dropping that incessant need to refresh an app or two.

@Uncharted2007 I wholeheartedly agree with free-speech and that twitter loved to censor certain groups more than others in a very biased and unfair manner.
What I don't agree is putting Elon on a pedestal as a paragon of free speech is a fallacy.
He censored the Turkish people before the election he helped the Indian government quiet some people and there are more examples that I can't remember right now.
I'm all for free speech, Elon Musk definitely isn't.

@Pat_trick You must have missed the part where I put, "I don't agree with everything Musk does."

To put it plainly, it was obvious no one else had a care in the world to uphold free speech for conservatives... and no... a majority of conservatives don't care if actual racists get moderated for being racist. It was EVERY platform deleting and censoring conservative thoughts and arguments from their platforms ensuring only one side was heard so that's what people thought everyone agreed with. It was the overreach of governments colluding with tech companies to "Other" a specific group.

Frankly, no one else had the care, ability, or both to stop them. So yeah, I'll high five Musk for ripping Twitter away from the real fascists.

Most people leaving Twitter will probably be back after a while. Remember those other "exoduses" to different platforms? Mastodon? Minds? Gab?

Fair play to the author of this article, he knew exactly what he was doing 😂. Turning a complete non story "companies use different social media platforms" into an all out comment war, Impressive stuff 👏

@KaijuKaiser "Pieces of crap" because they shine the spotlight on the subversion, perversion and indoctrination that are posted with pride by the original individuals themselves? They're simply providing more reach for those individuals than they expected. You should be thanking them.

@KaijuKaiser Let's just say based on his egomaniacal 2am Wyle.E.Coyote "super genius" moments which currently seems to be skipping bills to Google & whilst excuse making & limiting accessibility for the once standard "free" accounts whilst spamming with ads & bots I wouldn't set foot near one of his rockets!🤯 Though would be happy if he took one to Mars!😂

Much like Facebook,Google,Amazon & Microsoft right now in its FTC "battle" wherein the Judge's son works for Microsoft,big corporations being in the control of so few is as much of the problem these days!😕

I'm not that surprised corporations like Sony are eager to setup Plan B's on places like this "Threads"...whether i can be bothered setting up FB/Insta etc.,is another matter...all of a sudden some of my old forum hangouts like EAB suddenly look a tad less crazy!!🤪😂

@Browny your comment should have all the likes. We should all spend less time on social media yelling past each other and more time doing literally anything else.

@AdamNovice second this haha. MySpace was so simple. Where is Tom when you need him.

"MySpace Angle" will always be a term for selfies I find hilarious.

@BeerIsAwesome I miss when there were two internets. IRC, BBS, and the occasional Angelfish page for sane nerds to talk about sane nerd things, and AOL for the brainless normies that infect the real world but somehow usually make more money. It kept them isolated in their cell of mindlessness. Then "internet 2.0" happened, "social media" took what was AOL and made it even more mainstream, and....here we are. A picture of a blue bird leads to a wall of...well...twitter-like...er....conversation.....

Could be worse. Could be an article about Xbox.

Oh, let's all flock to that social media platform where people who I don't agree with are censored. Yay!

@BeerIsAwesome your choice is dregs or distopian orwellian future.

@Uncharted2007 Ya I'll be stick to Musk on this one. Not a huge fan of his, but he at least understands the value of free speech. I can't say the same for Meta. Just like selling our freedoms away just as we got them back. Questionable logic of people just blows my mind.

@KaijuKaiser

"everyone is in favor of free speech when it’s their side that is given more of a voice."

Yes we have a name for those kinds of people in the US. Democrats.

" Elon is just going in the opposite direction and boosting pieces of crap like libs of tik tok and Matt Walsh."

Did you ever consider that your tunnel vision that lead you to think those two camps were PoC might have had something to do with the censorship you allowed for years? Matt Walsh makes good points, so does libs of tic tok. I mean unless you think AOC was right and that its ok to have crack in the white house, then I don't know what to tell ya man. You're on the wrong side of history with your perspective.

"He’s already censored people who work for him that have spoken negatively about work conditions."

We can walk through those cases if you'd like. Information is publicaly available as to why those people were "censored". Unfortunately thats Twitter. Not the public square. Though those same people made the argument that "its a company they can do what they want", I feel like its those same people now eating crow after years of pursicution through banning and digital oppression finally catching up with them.

"He’s free speech for some but not for all" by your own statements free speech for customers of his platform, but not with regards to his own company. That's fair so long as the rest of us in the town square can call a dog a dog without it being called disinformation and suddenly getting baned because someone in the US executive branch decides to have a tempertantrum over a private phone call. If that is the price, then its a very small price to pay for us in the public space.

I find your logic lacking priority and over flowing with disengenious positions. Your upset that the shackles are removed from those who never deserved them in the first place. Not becuase any actual wrong doing was done under Elon's reign.

I once said I didn't see the point of Twitter. Then I joined, and 14 years later I'm still there.

I don't use it as much as I once did, but that usage decline has nothing to do with Musk... it started before him, a few years ago when the whole atmosphere began to change, the mobs began to form, and anyone without the "correct" attitude started to get hounded. And I don't make any comment about what the "correct" attitude is, because people on all sides harass those they believe to be "wrong". I just do my best to stay away from it.

So my social media usage dropped significantly. I deleted my Facebook account in June last year, though I still have my Instagram account for now. I didn't move to Mastodon, I won't be moving to Bluesky, and the absolute last thing I want is another Zuckerberg/Meta/Facebook app; I only keep WhatsApp because some friends refuse to move to Telegram, but that may well go soon.

So I'll stay on Twitter, where I've had no issues at all yet. If it dies, so be it. But I doubt that it will.

@Uncharted2007 uhm... that's not Marxism by any stretch of the word

@BeerIsAwesome It's amazing what happens when the masses of the whole world are grouped into one of 5 different corporate rooms to all talk at each other and only one can be right. I would never have guessed things would go badly.

Remember when the internet was decentralized, P2P, client-server communication, the stronger, more robust version of networking? And then somehow we went back to mainframes we call "cloud", declared it better, and when Amazon or Level 3 hiccups the entire network goes down. PROGRESS! If the people that built "web 2.0" designed skyscrapers they'd be 3 mile long single story buildings below sea level.

"We shall just ignore the guy over there who called Jim Ryan Hitler earlier today..."

Might have been me, can't remember.

@BeerIsAwesome You're certainly not wrong, though in this case I think money was just a side effect. The real aim was control. It's the evolution of every 20th century totalitarians visions. Yet chosen by the public!

Social media, where everybody got to speak to the world, and promptly found out that the world disagreed with them.

I'm not a fan of Facebook, so I'll avoid. If it was a new independent company, then maybe I'd consider it.

Twitter will always be number one in this particular social media genre. Elon has definitely made mistakes since the purchase. But the previous regimes suppression of certain political viewpoints was absolutely scandalous. Anyone championing moving to a new app started by Mark Zuckerberg of all people are fools though. Meta is a horrible company at the pinnacle of big tech. Look for a political lean on threads coming very soon. Fingers crossed Sony just continue to mirror posts on both so I can remain on Twitter.

The deep state is afraid of Twitter. There is an election next year and it's difficult to supress information (Hunter Biden's laptop for example) when you have the digital town square becoming more free speech focused. You'll start to see mainstream media referring to Threads all the time and will no longer talk about twitter to try an influence a sheep-like brainwashed audience. Elon is about to sue Meta, but these things take time and woud not be resolved before the next US election.

@KaijuKaiser yea sure but you know exactly what I meant anyway…

Well hasn't this article brought all of the absolute fannies

Who gives a *****?

Instagram is enough social media for me. Can't be bothered with this.

@get2sammyb so let me get this straight: "you've never read a book" is flaming, but spouting straight up verified conspiracy theories is ok?
I mean, it's your site so you do you, but frankly that's disgusting.
And it was the seventh comment, so much for keeping the conversation on topic.

Why do we care???????? I wish there is a feature in push square to block useless article like this.

@Uncharted2007 If Freedom of Speech means a spreading hate and massive amounts and questionable info at best then I rather stay in the dark.

It's funny how "social" media platforms make us all less social by the second i dropped my Twitter account and never looked back.

@get2sammyb comment #7, this is what I'm referring to: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Marxism_conspiracy_theory

If you don't know what I or they were talking about, I'm sorry but I don't think it's a great idea to publish such articles on a gaming site.
It's like expecting any tabloid to give you a nuanced assessment of a videogame like you do here.

@johncalmc It happend when everyone goes into fightmode to protect massive companies and the insanely rich with the delusion that they are fighting for the small guy.

The claimed triumph of Threads is premature.

It's really strange to see how strong the desire for government censorship is among journalists.

What's controversial about Elon bringing back free speech and not being allowing Twitter to be beholden to any political party and their wishes?

So, the "discerning gamers" playing 2013 games at 60fps on their Nan's 2010 telly prefer Twitter?... not impressed... well, you can always to "decide" (if you know that word) to not join Threads, perhaps you can find a meaning for your life, lol... and perhaps you can play 2023 games at 120Hz mode. People, you don't like it, don't buy, don't join, don't follow and stop whining and just say that you do not like it, and perhaps you can look smart and normal...

@Uncharted2007 I'm extremely pro free speech so in theory I'm in favour of Elon supporting it. Though in practice, he loves to censor anything he doesn't like.